This is why this game is been watched by johnny come latelys who have no idea about football.
High Contact
Off the ball
Reckless
High impact.
go to your calculator and work on not a great comparison.
Now get out your calculator.
Buchanan 5 year clean record without ever being in front of the tribunal.
Holland 5 year history of snipes, behind the play hits and high bumps and has carry over points
If each player performs the same offence, the punishment is going to be substantially different.
One gets a 25% reduction for a clean record, while the other gets a 25% increase for a crappy record.
Now here is where you need your calculator. Lets say that an offence carries *600 points which equals 6 weeks. Holland has 80 carry over points and a 25% increase for a bad record so he now has 830 points to Buchanan's 600.
Holland is offered 6 weeks with an early guilty plea giving him 25% reduction down to 622.25 points. Then he challenges the decision, this losing his deduction and back up to 830 points. He loses at the tribunal and ends up with 8 weeks and 30 carry over points. Buchanan meanwhile, gets offered 3 weeks with a 25% deduction for clean record and 25% for guilty plea. He pleads guilty, gets 3 weeks (300 points) and has nothing to carry over.
If you think that is a good comparison, you are the reason Pies fans are stereotyped as complete idiots.
Now run along.
(*imaginary offence, chose 600 because it will be easy for you to work out the deductions on your calculator)






